Category: Art

The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Arts Translated from the German with Notes and Prefatory Essay

I wholly disapprove of analyses (among which may be reckoned Michelet's summary above mentioned) as representations of Hegel's writing, which is attractive chiefly by the force and freshness of its detail. I am convinced that Hegel should be allowed to speak for himself, and t...

Chapters

14. CHAPTER V

1. After the above introductory remarks, it is now time to pass to the study of our object-matter. But we are still in the introduction, and an introduction cannot do more than...

11. PART I.--THE WORK OF ART AS MADE AND AS SENSUOUS.

After the above prefatory remarks, we approach closer to our subject, the philosophy of artistic beauty. Inasmuch as we are undertaking to treat it scientifically we must begin...

12. PART II.--THE END OF ART.

3. The question then arises, what the interest or the _End_ is which man proposes to himself when he reproduces such a content in the form of works of art. This was the third po...

13. CHAPTER IV.

I Shall touch briefly upon the historical side of the transition above alluded to, partly for its historical interest, partly because, in doing so, we shall more closely indicat...

9. CHAPTER I.

The name "Æsthetic" in its natural sense is not quite appropriate to this subject. "Æsthetic" means more precisely the science of sensation or feeling. Thus understood, it arose...

8. CHAPTER V.

[1. The Condition of Artistic Presentation is the Correspondence of Matter and Plastic Form 133 2. Part I.--The Ideal 141 3. Part II.--The Types of Art 144 ([Greek: a]) Symbolic...

10. CHAPTER II.

If we now investigate _the required mode of scientific consideration_, we here again meet with two opposite ways of treating the subject, each of which appears to exclude the ot...

1. Part II.,[1] Mr. Kedney's short analysis of the entire work,[2] and

I wholly disapprove of analyses (among which may be reckoned Michelet's summary above mentioned) as representations of Hegel's writing, which is attractive chiefly by the force...

6. PART II.--The End of Art.

3. [The Interest or End of Art (79-106) (_a_) Imitation of Nature? 79 ([Greek: a]) Mere Repetition of Nature is-- 79 ([Greek: aa]) Superfluous 80 ([Greek: bb]) Imperfect 80 ([Gr...

5. PART I.--The Work of Art as Made and as Sensuous 43-78

1. Work of Art as Product of Human Activity 48 [(_a_) Conscious Production by Rule 48 (_b_) Artistic Inspiration 50 (_c_) Dignity of Production by Man 54 (_d_) Man's Need to pro...

2. CHAPTER I.

[[Greek: a.] Æsthetic confined to Beauty of _Art_ 2 [Greek: b.] Does Art _merit_ Scientific Treatment? 5 [Greek: g.] Is Scientific Treatment _appropriate_ to Art? 8 [Greek: d.]...

7. CHAPTER IV.

1. Kant 107 [(_a_) Pleasure in Beauty not Appetitive 110 (_b_) Pleasure in Beauty Universal 111 (_c_) The Beautiful in its Teleological Aspect 112 (_d_) Delight in the Beautiful...

3. CHAPTER II.

4. CHAPTER III.